Thank you very much, Mr. Simard, for a very important and very timely question, because exactly as you have explained, last spring, when COVID first became prevalent in North America, there were quite a number of Canadians, particularly Canadians from Quebec, who were down on spring break in the United States and in other places in the world. They had, under the Constitution, a right of return. We will always let Canadians return. Unfortunately, that did create a vulnerability.
The current situation is that, first of all, Global Affairs Canada is strongly advising all Canadians not to travel out of the country, to remain in Canada, but of course we don't have the authority to prevent people from making the choice to go to other jurisdictions. The rules that you talk about being circumvented are not actually Canada's rules; they are the United States' rules. The United States, although they closed the land border reciprocally with us last March as a result of discussions and arrangements that we made to restrict non-essential travel, did not put in place restrictions to prevent people from flying into their country similar to those Canada put in place.
In Canada, the rules are quite strict that non-essential travel is restricted in both land and air modes. In the United States, the Americans have allowed people to continue to fly into the U.S. As a consequence, some Canadians are in fact making the decision to fly into the U.S. to vacation or to spend their winter in Florida, in Arizona or in other places. They are not breaking any of our laws, but let me assure you that upon their return to Canada, first of all, under the Constitution, they will have a right to re-enter Canada, but they will be ordered into quarantine by whatever rules may exist at the time of their return. Right now, that's a 14-day quarantine. They will be ordered and required to quarantine upon their return.
CBSA has to allow Canadians to re-enter Canada, but they will be subject to the Public Health Agency of Canada's rules under the Quarantine Act and will be subject to quarantine. We will continue to discourage it, because, frankly, any Canadian travelling to another jurisdiction.... I would strongly urge them not to do that, but should they choose to do that, they should make sure they have good health insurance and make sure that they will have access to adequate health care.